Selfie Analysis

Good Morning everyone, thank you for visiting my CHANEL again! I’m so sorry I havent’ been able to update for such a long time, but I’ve been very busy with my recent trip to Alaska, which I will be explaining all about on next vido! Anyways, today, I have brought a hot trending topic- and THAT is yes- The number one song on Billboard's AND Itunes New Release chart - #Selfie”. I’m pretty sure all of you have watched it, but here, let’s watch it again.

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When I first saw the video, I knew that this song was going to be huge after hearing just the 30second preview of the track. I thought that the approach was genius. the video inherently had this viral concept of selfies built into it, which certainly helped get it off the ground. And the way they named the song? Ah-mazingly genius.

The title I believe is really what helped the song to get viral in the first place. For all of you who don't’ know the function of hastags, Hashtags are a new way of tracking topics on Twitter, instagram and other social media platforms like Facebook. They now act in the 21st century as one of the key languages although a symbol. One of the most commonly used hashtags in these social media platforms are #selfie, referring to a photo of a person taken by herself or himself. Some 35 million posts using the #selfie hashtag have now been made on Instagram, generating hundreds of millions of likes each and every day.Now why does this have to do anything with hwo it made the SONG #selfie viral? When a picture is captioned with #selfie, it directly gets categorized within the other trillions of photos with the label #selfie. In the system, this generates a popular trend as the amount of label increases. The song, #selfie belongs into the same category as well, and takes benefits of all the other photos with the label on it, allowing more people to discover its song, music video, and generating millions of likes each and every day. The combination of the 21st century’s key...